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MOFA urges U.N. to justly deal with Taiwan's membership application

ROC Central News Agency

2007-08-31 21:22:01

    Taipei, Aug. 31 (CNA) The United Nations should justly deal with Taiwan's membership application and address Taiwan's right to join the world body, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) spokesman said Friday.

    The appeal came two days after the U.N. Secretariat distributed documents related to a motion initiated by Taiwan's diplomatic allies regarding the country's latest U.N. bid, to U.N. missions of all member countries.

    Taiwan adopted a new strategy this year in its bid for U.N. membership, using the name Taiwan, following its failure in the past 14 years to gain membership under its official national title of the Republic of China.

    The Secretariat provides versions of the motion in six languages -- English, simplified Chinese, French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic -- on its official Web site, the MOFA spokesman noted.

    It has also distributed letters written by Kiribati and El Salvador to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in support of Taiwan's U.N. membership motion to U.N. missions of all member countries, the spokesman said.

    President Chen Shui-bian's two letters previously sent to Ban to express the country's wish to join the world body were incorporated in an explanatory note attached to the motion filed by Taiwan's allies on its behalf, the spokesman added.

(By T.C. Jiang)

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